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A Biosemiotic Ontology

Part of the Biosemiotics Book Series (volume 18)

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-97903-8

ISBN: 978-3-319-97902-1

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Nov 15, 2018

1 - 10 of 12 Chapters

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Introduction

Cimatti, Felice

Pages: 1 –4

[The natural world, the world of things, is a full world. It is full because everything is in contact with something else, because in the world there is nothing but material events. If the world is such, then what is the meaning of a sign? A sign, in fact, is a sending to; it stands for something...
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Life

Cimatti, Felice

Pages: 5 –13

[In this chapter, we will present the main elements of Giorgio Prodi’s life, and we will reconstruct the entire and complex picture of Prodi as an intellectual: a scientist, a philosopher, a novelist.]
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Scientist Because Philosopher, Philosopher Because Scientist

Cimatti, Felice

Pages: 15 –22

[Why did Prodi, while engaged in his scientific work, begin to study and to write philosophy? In this chapter, I will attempt to answer this question. The guiding idea is that Prodi realized that, in order to truly be a scientist, one needs to reflect on what it means to be a scientist....
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The Line and the Circle

Cimatti, Felice

Pages: 23 –34

[This chapter describes Prodi’s peculiar strategy to explain life phenomena. This is a model based on the concept of relation or biological meaning that always privileges the relation over the terms of the relation. For Prodi a relation is never a one-way affair, but, on the contrary, it is...
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The Biological Model: For an Anti-Cartesian Semiotics

Cimatti, Felice

Pages: 35 –48

[For Prodi, the fundamental semiotic interaction obtains between two molecules. The first selectively “reads” some superficial characteristics of the second, allowing it to establish a link. The fact that a link between two molecules is possible makes the second molecule “meaningful” for the...
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From Complementarity to Semiosis

Cimatti, Felice

Pages: 49 –68

[Giorgio Prodi poses a fundamental philosophical problem: how was the emergence of immaterial meaning possible within the world of material things? In order to answer this question, Prodi develops an original relational ontology. The world is made of relations between things, not of things. The...
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The Origin of Language

Cimatti, Felice

Pages: 69 –80

[How does the transition between the proto-semiosic material relation, established between two molecules, and a historical-natural language happen, and what changes does it bring? How much in common do cellular semiosis and human semiosis have? It is necessary to understand how Prodi explains the...
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Attention and Consciousness

Cimatti, Felice

Pages: 81 –88

[The human is an animal that refers to itself as an “I”. According to Descartes, the subject is an axiom, and everything else follows from this primordial certainty. This is a dualism: to postulate an I as separate from the natural world. Prodi rejects this dualism. The challenge of Prodi is to...
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Breaking the Circle

Cimatti, Felice

Pages: 89 –97

[Prodi explains semiosic phenomena by means of the model of the circle. This model allows to account for a very important feature of the natural world: in lifeLife (as a biosemiosic phenomenon) phenomena, there is no a one-way causal arrow, from the lenvironment to the living organism and vice...
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Language and Ethics

Cimatti, Felice

Pages: 99 –108

[The biological ground of ethics, according to Prodi, should not be sought in feelings of empathy or altruism. On the contrary, human ethics is profoundly “unnatural”, precisely because it is unbound from any genetic principle. As a matter of fact, if there was such a “natural” morality, there...

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